Sideline
ResearchThese
lines
have
married
into
my
family
(primary
and
secondary
lines
of
research
seen
above)
and
are
included
here
to
aid
other
researchers.
I
am
not
currently
researching
these
names;
however,
the
pages
are
updated
as
information
becomes
available.

UPDATE
June
2011
-
Due
to
my
heavy
involvement
with
the
YDNA
Projects,
I
no
longer
am
"actively"
researching
in
the
South
Carolina
Courthouses
nor
actively
doing
on
line
research
into
any
of
the
surnames
included
on
this
site.
I
have
every
intention
of
picking
up
my
research
during
visits
to
North
Carolina
and
will
continue
to
place
records
and
information
here
when
found,
but
I
have
not
been
able
to
actually
carry
out
this
intent
to
date.

The
website
is
in
the
process
of
being
updated
for
the
first
time
since
2009;
most
of
the
new
information
has
come
from
the
emails
of
other
researchers.
That
information
will
in
most
cases
NOT
have
been
verified
by
my
personally
viewing
the
records
used.
If
you
take
this
information
for
your
own
files,
please
remember
that
it
has
not
been
verified
and
proven
unless
otherwise
specified.

Since
I
am
not
actively
researching
at
the
moment,
there
may
have
been
newly
discovered
information
on
any
of
the
surnames
included
on
this
site...i.e.
new
information
may
now
be
available
on
FreeBMD
for
birth
and
death
information
that
contradicts
what
is
found
on
this
web
site.
When
you
see
this,
please
drop
me
an
email
and
I'll
update
the
information.
When
you
write,
please
send
in
the
Page
Title
and
the
web
address,
without
this
information,
correcting
or
adding
new
information
to
the
site
can
be
very
difficult
due
to
the
number
of
pages
contained
within
it.

Additionally,
please
be
sure
that
you
are
actually
correcting
something
that
is
ON
a
page
within
THIS
site;
I
recently
received
an
email
from
a
cousin
that
knew
my
family
and
had
visited
us
when
I
was
a
child.
This
cousin
sent
a
quite
rude
email
(not
realizing
who
I
was)
demanding
that
I
"stop
showing
him
as
dead
on
my
pages".
I
knew
which
pages
this
cousin
had
contributed
to
and
immediately
began
to
see
if
I
had
mistakenly
listed
him
as
dead.
I
had
not
and
in
fact
the
only
place
he
was
referenced
in
the
entire
site
was
as
a
contributor.
There
was
still
some
insistence
that
I
had
him
listed
as
dead
and
so
I
did
a
time
consuming
manual
search
of
every
page
in
the
site.
In
the
end,
we
learned
that
he
had
performed
a
search
in
which
the
search
engine
had
combined
portions
of
sentences
contained
on
the
same
page
and
made
it
appear
as
if
I
had
listed
him
as
dead.
He
was
embarrassed
at
his
rude
email
and
I
had
wasted
valuable
time
doing
a
manual
search
of
every
page
in
my
site
to
see
if
I
had
made
a
mistake.
So,
please,
be
certain
that
the
information
you
are
correcting
is
actually
ON
my
site
and
not
a
mix
up
of
information
by
a
search
engines
programing.

The
original
intent
of
this
web
site
is
the
same
as
it
has
always
been;
to
provide
a
FREE
tool
for
researchers
to
help
each
other
by
the
sharing
of
information
-
please
support
this
intent
by
helping
to
keep
it
as
accurate
as
possible.
Corrections
are
always
welcome
-
rude
emails
are
not...(those
of
you
who
have
sent
them
know
who
you
are....).

Happy
Researching
and
"Hold
Fast"!

1.
Do
I
research
for
others?

I
am
an
amatuer
genealogist
without
licensing
at
the
moment.
I
don't
research
for
others;
however,
in
the
course
of
researching
my
own
family
lines
I
occassionally
come
across
records
pertaining
to
other
lines
of
the
same
names.
These
records
are
placed
on
my
website
to
aid
other
researchers.

2.
Am
I
working
on
any
other
of
my
surnames
at
the
moment?

90%
of
my
research
efforts
at
the
moment
are
with
my
McLeod
line.
I
have
learned
that
if
I
don't
go
into
a
research
trip
with
a
list
of
"to
do"
I
come
away
empty
handed.
However,
I
do
copy
indexes
of
other
surnames
for
later
research
while
in
the
courthouses
and
I
do
research
other
famiy
names
on
the
internet,
but
since
I
don't
consider
it
documented
until
I
have
the
records
in
my
own
files,
I
don't
consider
that
"real"
research.

3.
How
important
is
"family
legend"?

In
every
family
legend
a
grain
of
truth
exists.
It
is
a
serious
researcher's
goal
to
find
the
documentation
to
back
it
up
and
sometimes
finding
that
documentation
may
take
years.
The
simplest
question
an
older
generation
member
may
ask
during
an
interview
may
turn
out
to
be
of
great
importance.
For
example,
a
man
interviewed
in
1920
asked
the
interviewer
this
question
upon
his
arrival........."how
are
our
Boykin
Cousins'?"
Approximately
eighty
two
years
after
the
interview
took
place,
an
apparent
connection
was
finally
found
between
a
Daniel
McLeod
and
the
children
of
our
deceased
Alexander
McLeod.
Researching
that
Daniel
McLeod,
it
was
learned
that
his
daughter,
Annie
McLeod,
had
married
Col.
Stephen
Madison
Boykin;
therefore,
since
Albert
(the
man
interviewed)
was
Annie's
second
cousin,
Annie's
Boykin
children
were
indeed
his
cousins
and
the
cousins
of
the
interviewer.

Even
if
there
is
no
evidence
at
the
time
of
the
interview
that
a
piece
of
information
is
correct,
remember
it.
Our
legend
included
the
immigration
point
being
Virginia,
which
was
unusual
for
Scots...it
would
have
been
easy
to
say
Albert
John
was
wrong
or
that
Jay
Frank,
the
interviewer
was
confused....as
typically
the
Scots
immigrants
entered
into
Wilmington
NC
or
Charleston
SC
upon
immigration.
We
had
found
no
evidence
of
this
being
a
true
statement
for
years
however
Col.
Purdy
Belvin
McLeod
Jr.'s
recent
participation
in
the
DNA
surname
study
has
revealed
a
perfect
25
marker
match
with
two
men
whose
own
immigrant
ancestor,
one
Norman
McLeod,
appears
in
Virignia
records
about
the
same
time
as
our
Angus
is
believed
to
have
immigrated
and
entered
Virginia!
This
25
marker
level
perfect
match
was
confirmed
upon
receipt
of
the
results
of
Donald
Ross
McLeod
Sr.'s
testing.

4.
How
do
I
determine
to
which
McLeod
line
a
document
belongs?

I
make
a
list
of
all
the
neighbors
of
my
ancestor
for
each
census
in
which
they
are
enumerated;
land
deeds
for
my
ancestor
will
include
some
of
those
neighbors
in
boundary
discriptions,
those
neighbors
will
be
witnesses
to
the
legal
documents
of
my
ancestors,
they
are
likely
to
attend
the
same
church,
use
the
same
Mill
and
general
store
etc.....the
records
of
other
lines
of
McLeods
will
likewise
be
determined
in
the
same
manner.
Learn
the
creeks,
branches,
mills
and
other
landmarks
of
the
area
you
are
researching
-
this
all
helps
in
determining
the
ownership
of
records.
ALWAYS
read
the
very
bottom
of
the
record
where
one
finds
the
Release
of
Dower
(if
released).
I
copied
a
court
case
from
1817
that
I
believed
concerned
my
Angus,
husband
of
Nancy
McCutchen
-
it
included
all
the
right
names,
the
right
time
frame,
the
right
area
and
I
was
very
excited........until
I
went
through
my
other
records
to
see
if
anything
in
another
record
conflicted
with
the
court
case.
A
few
years
after
the
lawsuit,
the
land
in
question
was
sold
by
Angus
McLeod
to
William
Josey
-
(my
gggg
grandfather)
BUT
the
dower
release
was
signed
by
a
MARGARET
McLeod
and
not
a
Nancy
McLeod........that
record
is
likely
not
the
record
of
MY
Angus
but
of
a
younger
Angus
McLeod
whose
land
was
adjacent
to
Alexander
and
Mary
Catherine
McCaskill
McLeod
in
Kershaw
County
-
a
separate
line
of
McLeods
from
mine!

5.
How
much
credence
do
I
put
in
the
family
files
of
others
-
those
files
found
either
on
the
internet
or
in
a
local
archive?

Not
much
if
I
haven't
corresponded
with
the
researcher
myself.
The
first
thing
I
want
to
know
is
whether
or
not
the
owner
of
the
family
file
did
the
research
themselves
or
just
downloaded
or
copied
and
pasted
it
into
their
files
from
someone
else's
file.
Spend
five
minutes
on
World
Connect
doing
a
search
for
Daniel
McLeod
husband
of
Jane
Christmas
for
instance......you
will
find
as
many
as
six
identical
gedcoms
-
each
of
them
copied
and
pasted
from
another
file
with
none
of
the
owners
of
the
file
having
done
their
own
research.
In
this
case,
I
happen
to
know
which
is
the
original
file
and
it
contains
a
glaring
error
-
the
owner
has
called
a
son
of
Daniel
and
Jane
Christmas
McLeod
....Daniel
McLeod
Jr.and
shows
this
son
Daniel
Jr.
with
a
wife
named
Catherine
McLean
-
first
off,
this
Daniel
and
Catherine
McLean
McLeod
are
of
MY
line
of
McLeods
and
have
absolutely
no
ties
to
Daniel
and
Jane
Christmas
McLeod
whatsoever.
But,
if
an
observant
researcher
paid
attention
to
what
the
file
actually
says
instead
of
just
"name
gathering"
by
copying
and
pasting
or
downloading
the
information
into
their
own
files,
they
would
realize
that
Daniel
Sr.
and
Daniel
Jr.
were
the
same
age!
Both
men
are
in
the
1850
Sumter
Census,
with
wives
names
and
children's
names
exactly
as
stated
in
this
particular
World
Connect
file,
both
aged
about
60!
Perhaps
even
more
than
five
other
researchers
have
added
this
error
into
their
family
files
and
they
have
in
turn
passed
their
file
onto
five
others.....can
you
see
the
issue
with
this?
Now
that
incorrect
information
is
spread
far
and
wide
and
because
no
one
bothered
to
include
sourcing
i.e.
"copied
from
the
file
of
........."
it
is
likely
that
not
one
of
those
folk
could
tell
you
where
they
got
the
information
in
the
first
place!

6.
How
do
I
use
family
files
of
others
in
my
own
research?

I
have
two
FTM
files
-
one
is
titled
"combined
family
tree"
and
the
other
".....Angus
McLeod".
The
combined
tree
contains
all
the
names
I
find
during
internet
research
with
notes
as
to
whether
the
information
appears
to
be
correct,
where
it
was
found,
if
I
have
spoken
with
the
researcher
etc.
In
that
way,
I
keep
access
to
the
information
but
it
is
still
kept
separate
from
my
proven
or
documented
Information.
When
it
is
considered
"proven"
I
add
it
to
the
Angus
McLeod
family
tree
file.
Just
as
my
family
legend
and
your
family
legend
contain
a
grain
or
more
of
truth,
so
do
these
gedcoms
that
belong
to
other
folks.
In
the
particular
file
I
mentioned
above
with
the
glaring
error
about
the
two
Daniel's,
there
is
also
some
good
information
-
information
that
has
been
researched
by
the
original
file
owner.

7.
If
I
make
a
five
hour
trip
to
do
research,
and
I
only
have
three
hours
left
in
my
day,
do
I
go
to
the
Local
Archives
or
to
the
Courthouse?

I
always
spend
the
bulk
of
my
time
on
any
research
trip
in
the
courthouses
of
the
counties
where
my
ancestors
lived;
I
begin
by
looking
at
Index
Books,
making
copies
of
that
portion
of
the
index
that
contains
my
surnames
of
interest.
Then,
I
go
to
the
actual
records
and
look
for
the
keywords,
if
those
words
are
found,
I
make
a
copy
of
the
record
and
go
on
to
the
next
indexed
record
saving
the
magnifying
glass
examination
of
the
record
until
I
get
back
home.

My
second
goal
on
a
research
trip
is
to
visit
as
many
of
the
local
cemeteries
or
family
graveyards
as
possible
to
continue
to
document
our
family
burial
sites.

Third
on
my
list
of
things
to
do
is
to
hit
the
genealogical
society
or
the
archive
center.
I
spend
that
time
going
through
published
books
in
the
archives
library
-
i.e.
an
index
of
cases
filed
with
Court
of
Common
Pleas
is
an
invaluable
research
tool
as
many
of
those
court
cases
may
not
have
been
copied
to
microfilm
as
of
yet.
The
index
allows
you
to
then
go
to
the
courthouse
and
search
for
the
cases.

8.
What
exactly
do
I
mean
when
I
say
"I
believe
it
only
when
I
have
documented
it".

Just
because
someone's
gedcom
on
World
Connect
or
their
web
page
on
Rootsweb
has
sourcing
information
included
doesn't
mean
that
the
information
is
correct.
The
accuracy
of
both
the
information
and
the
sourcing
should
always
be
suspect
until
you
have
viewed
the
source
records
yourself.
When
you
see
the
record
yourself
you
then
have
documented
the
information
and
can
believe
it
true
and
reliable.
I.E.
I
copied
the
record
of
Angus
McLeod
selling
land
to
William
Josey
years
before
I
found
the
court
case
that
concerned
that
land
-
I
neglected
however
to
copy
the
Release
of
Dower
portion
of
the
deed.
After
finding
the
court
case,
I
went
back
to
that
deed
in
the
book
at
the
courthouse
and
double
checked
for
the
dower
release
and
learned
that
a
Margaret
and
not
a
Nancy
McLeod
had
signed
the
release.
Despite
all
indications
that
this
was
a
deed
for
my
ancestor,
in
the
end
it
wasn't
-
view
the
records
yourself
and
make
sure
you
view
the
entire
record!

9.
Can
I
please
explain
the
real
difference
between
a
"name
gatherer"
and
a
"serious
researcher"?

A
name
gatherer
searches
the
internet
for
other
peoples
family
files,
copies
and
then
pastes
the
information
they
glean
from
those
files
into
their
own
file
and
then
promptly
forget
about
it
while
they
continue
to
search
for
more
and
more
names.
Their
pride
is
in
the
number
of
names
they
have
in
their
file
and
not
in
the
accuracy
of
their
file.
They
compound
this
by
never
actually
reading
what
they
have
copied
so
that
what
should
be
glaring
mistakes
(like
the
son
of
man
being
the
same
age
as
his
father!!!!)
are
never
noticed
and
are
passed
around
to
more
name
gatherers
and
soon
these
incorrect
family
files
take
over
the
world!
Ask
a
name
gatherer
how
they
are
related
to
you
and
they
won't
be
able
to
answer
you
-
your
email
will
never
be
answered~

As
I
wrote
above,
a
serious
researcher
views
the
actual
records
referenced
in
other
works,
includes
the
source
from
which
they
gathered
the
initial
information
or
reference,
and/or
qualifies
the
information
with
a
statement
of
intent
to
verify,
seeks
out
additional
records
to
verify
the
initial
found
records
and
takes
pride
in
the
ACCURACY
of
their
file
rather
than
the
NUMBER
OF
NAMES
in
their
file.

Listen
my
friend............surfing
the
internet
and
copying
someone
else's
gedcom
or
webpage
is
NOT
RESEARCHING!
It
is
name
gathering.
Researching
is
paying
for
a
subscription
to
an
online
genealogical
database
and
spending
hours
staring
at
the
microfilmed
and
scanned
documents
contained
on
the
site,
printing
down
those
records
and
keeping
them
in
your
personal
files;
researching
is
traveling
to
courthouses
and
archives
and
cemeteries
and
becoming
thirsty
and
dirty
and
suffering
from
eyestrain
and
paying
for
hotels,
and
gas,
and
copies
of
hundreds
of
records.
Researching
is
taking
those
records
home
and
reading
them
carefully
with
a
magnifying
glass
and
then
spending
hours
making
sure
that
nothing
in
that
record
conflicts
with
any
other
record
in
your
files
and
then
transcribing
those
records.
Researching
is
going
through
boxes
and
boxes
of
handwritten
notes
of
the
generations
who
came
before
you
and
researched
before
you
and
who
trusted
you
to
honor
their
work.Anything
else
is
name
gathering.

10.
Why
have
I
placed
a
copyright
on
my
website?

There
are
folks
who
take
name
gatherering
further
than
beginner's
ignorance
or
excitement
would
justify!
Two
years
ago
during
an
internet
search;
a
match
popped
up
that
had
the
name
of
one
of
my
cousins
descended
through
a
brother
of
my
3
times
great
grandfather.
Curious,
I
followed
the
link
to
see
if
there
was
someone
actively
researching
that
branch.
Arriving
at
the
page,
there
was
a
familiar
feel
to
the
way
that
the
birth
place,
burial
place,
etc
were
worded
but
the
note
section
contained
no
information
and
there
was
no
sourcing
information
anywhere
on
the
page.
I
scrolled
to
the
bottom
of
the
webpage
to
see
if
a
contact
email
or
name
was
given
and
saw
"all
research
done
by
............."
and
then
below
that
"all
data
contained
on
this
page
is
the
sole
property
of
.............".

I
soon
learned
why
all
of
the
wording
of
birth,
death,
and
burial
information
looked
so
familiar
for
when
I
clicked
on
the
link
to
my
great
great
grandfather's
page,
I
found
the
web
page
from
my
site
copied
and
pasted
into
this
gentleman's
database.
Clicking
backwards
and
sidewise
and
downwards
revealed
several
more
of
my
pages
copied
and
pasted;
in
the
end,
I
stopped
counting
at
53
pages.
And
on
every
one
of
those
pages
the
gentleman
had
this
at
the
bottom
"all
research
done
by
............."
and
"all
data
contained
on
this
page
is
the
property
of
.............".

So,
surfing
the
internet
and
lifting
the
work
of
others
and
putting
it
into
your
database
is
RESEARCH?
Emailing
the
owner
of
this
80,000
name
database,
I
learned
that
1)
he
didn't
know
where
he
had
gotten
all
the
information
2)
he
didn't
have
any
connection
to
the
McLeod
surname
at
all
.
This
my
friend,
is
a
"name
gatherer".
He
agreed
to
place
a
link
to
my
website
and
to
source
me
as
the
author
of
the
intellectual
property
(essays)
that
had
been
lifted
from
my
site
(and
most
sourcing
removed!!!!).
Seven
months
later,
he
had
done
neither.
A
"cease
and
desist"
letter
was
sent
with
a
deadline
for
either
the
sourcing
and
linking
to
be
added
or
for
the
information
from
my
site
to
be
removed.
The
database
disappeared
from
the
internet
for
a
time.
but
has
now
been
returned
on
line
and
although
the
individuals
contained
on
my
website
still
remain
on
the
database,
nothing
is
contained
in
the
"notes"
section
-
all
that
is
found
now
are
the
names,
birth,
death,
marriage
dates
etc.
which
is
considered
"public
data".
Although
there
is
still
no
indication
of
WHERE
he
got
that
"public
data"
he
has
changed
the
bottom
portion
of
each
page.....where
before
he
claimed
he'd
"done"
all
the
research
and
that
he
owned
the
"data"
it
now
reads:

".........
Geneology
Search
Engine
Research
and
database
entry
by
"his
name
plus
email"
All
code
and
rights
to
this
search
engine
belong
to
the
afore
mentioned
Author
Much
of
the
information
gathered
in
this
database
was
found
on
the
world
wide
web.
On-line
info
is
most
often
not
documented.
The
information
should
be
used
with
caution
and
is
meant
as
a
place
to
start,
but
all
data
should
be
confirmed
by
your
own
research.
"

It
is
a
step
in
the
right
direction,
but
still
the
search
engine/database
of
a
"name
gatherer"
and
not
a
serious
researcher!
Oh
and
by
the
way
-
his
database
now
contains
over
1
million
names
according
to
a
note
on
the
top
of
the
index
page!

11.
Why
is
correct
sourcing
to
a
website
or
another
researcher
so
important?

When
I
asked
the
above
person
what
his
connection
to
my
family
was,
he
had
no
answer.
Nor
could
he
answer
from
where
he
had
gotten
the
pages.
When
I
asked
him
if
he
was
now
or
had
ever
been
actively
researching
my
McLeod
line
-
his
answer
was
NO.
So
why
exactly
were
my
relatives
who
were
NOT
his
relatives
on
his
website?
Because,
he
was
a
name
gatherer,
bragging
on
his
home
page
that
he
had
more
than
80,000
people
in
his
database!
But,
I
digress................

So,
by
copying
and
pasting
my
information
into
his
website
and
omitting
the
sourcing
information
or
a
link
to
an
ACTIVE
researcher,
he
had
created
a
dead
end
-
he
couldn't
answer
a
question
about
the
McLeods
included
in
his
pages,
nor
could
he
send
the
questioner
to
me
or
any
other
person
who
could
answer
their
question
because
he
had
deleted
all
the
sourcing
information,
provided
no
link
or
email
address
to
an
active
research,
and
wasn't
actively
researching
any
of
the
names
in
his
database.

Not
only
that,
but
he
had
had
my
pages
for
over
a
year
on
his
site
-
a
lot
of
the
information
on
the
pages
was
"old",
outdated,
disproven
or
proven
since
he
had
"lifted"
them
from
me.
Had
there
been
an
active
link
to
my
website
included
on
his
webpages
folks
could
have
come
to
my
site
and
learned
of
the
continuing
research.

AND
had
there
been
a
link
to
my
website
contained
on
the
webpages
I
WROTE,
I
would
have
walked
away
without
ever
having
to
contact
him
at
all
let
alone
via
a
cease
and
desist
letter
.

12.
Can
you
explain
the
difference
between
"public
data"
and
"intellectual
work"

Gladly!
Most
name
gatherers
do
so
without
intention
of
harm
or
offence
to
others,
they
are
simply
excited
to
find
more
information
about
their
family
line.
As
they
become
educated
in
the
world
of
genealogy,
they
quickly
begin
to
understand
the
importance
of
referencing
sources
of
whatever
kind
they
may
be.
The
first
time
I
was
asked
"how
did
you
come
up
with
...."
and
I
couldn't
find
where
I
had
gotten
that
information,
I
changed
from
a
name
gatherer
into
a
more
serious
researcher,
or
at
the
least
a
better
compiler
of
information.
I
spent
about
6
months
in
2001
going
back
through
my
gedcom
and
adding
the
sourcing
information
or
explaining
the
method
used
to
come
to
such
and
such
a
conclusion.

Public
Data
is
any
information
that
you
can
find
in
the
public
arena;
to
be
more
specific,
if
you
can
walk
into
a
courthouse,
access
the
record,
copy
it
and
take
it
home,
it
is
public
data.

Intellectual
Work
or
property
is
when
someone
then
takes
that
record,
translates
it
into
modern
vernacular
for
the
reader,
adds
their
own
thoughts
to
the
work
and
reasons
out
truth
from
fiction
based
upon
that
document
or
it
is
when
they
include
a
letter
or
other
information
from
their
private
family
records.
In
other
words,
anything
in
an
essay
format
that
isn't
a
direct
quote,
an
exact
transcription
etc.
is
intellectual
work/property.

But,
if
you
copy
and
paste
the
Pulbic
Data
from
a
personal
website
or
a
personal
gedcom
and
weren't
the
one
who
did
the
legwork
to
find
the
information
is
it
ETHICAL
for
you
to
not
credit
the
person
who
did
the
work
for
providing
you
the
information?

13.
Why
do
I
think
that
so
many
of
the
private
gedcoms
of
researchers
are
being
systematically
removed
from
world
connect
and
other
databases?

I
have
corresponded
with
many
of
them
and
they
are
fed
up
with
finding
the
information
that
they
have
spent
hundreds
of
hours
finding,
writing
about,
and
sharing
being
used
in
family
files
where
they
receive
no
credit
for
their
work.
BUT
it
is
more
than
that,
it
is
the
dead
ends
that
are
created
by
those
who
lift
the
information
without
providing
a
road
back
to
the
active
researcher.

All
of
us
who
have
had
information
lifted
from
our
pages
on
the
internet
have
found
instances
where
that
information
has
been
copied
and
pasted
incorrectly
into
another
gedcom..........then
we
see
that
error
perpetually
repeated
in
family
file
after
family
file
of
those
who
are
in
the
process
of
name
gathering.
We
add
post
it
notes
to
those
gedcoms
but
the
owners
of
the
gedcom
never
make
the
correction,
and
so
it
is
downloaded
by
someone
else,
added
to
another
family
file
and
then
uploaded
to
world
connect
again
and
again
and
again.
Soon,
our
family
file
is
the
only
one
with
the
CORRECT
attachment
of
Daniel
and
Catherine,
but
because
MORE
files
contain
the
other
INCORRECT
information,
genealogy
novices
think
that
the
correct
information
is
in
the
repeated
files
not
the
single
file.
And
because
the
person
who
took
the
information
from
us
initially
and
inadvertantly
added
it
to
their
own
files
incorrectly
didn't
source
us
as
the
place
where
they
got
the
information,
no
one
realizes
that
HE
wasn't
the
one
who
researched
it
in
the
first
place.................see
the
vicious
circle?

Okay,
enough
about
all
of
that..........if
I
haven't
made
my
point
clearly
and
if
you
don't
walk
away
from
this
page
a
"serious
researcher"
who
sources
every
single
bit
of
information
you
find,
then
nothing
else
I
can
say
will
cause
you
to
take
this
seriously
enough
to
take
the
time
to
give
credit
where
credit
is
due!
But,
I
have
faith
that
if
you've
read
this
far
and
put
up
with
my
angst
over
all
of
this
to
this
point,
you
already
are
a
serious
researcher
or
you
already
are
on
the
verge
of
becoming
one!
So
welcome
to
our
little
world!

14.
Why
have
I
removed
my
gedcom
from
World
Connect?

Several
reasons
-
most
of
them
discussed
in
earlier
paragraphs/sections
of
this
FAQ
page
-
but
in
addition
the
fact
that
information
on
there
(World
Connect)
was
supposedly
never
to
be
sold
-
yet
I
find
old
databases
submitted
by
me
from
2000
-
2004
now
on
One
World
Tree
-
and
I
have
no
memory
of
ever
submitting
those
gedcoms
to
that
database.
I
understand
that
One
World
Tree
is
a
subscription
only
database
(
I
may
be
wrong
but
I've
only
been
able
to
access
it
since
I
began
my
paid
subscription
to
Ancestry.com),
therefore
my
information
is
being
used
for
the
profit
of
the
owners
of
One
World
Tree
-
I
consider
that
"sold"....at
the
very
least
that
is
me
being
"sold
out".

So,
even
if
my
old
gedcom(s)
weren't
"sold"
by
worldconnect
to
another
party,
why
would
I
be
upset
that
my
gedcom
was
on
One
World
Tree?
One
World
Tree
is
a
mess
of
combined
information
-
death
and
burial
dates
of
one
Alexander
McLeod
combined
with
another
Alexander
McLeod
etc.....they
simply
find
men
and
women
of
the
same
name
and
approximate
birth
and
death
years
and
places
and
combine
them.
You
have
to
work
really
hard
to
get
to
the
original
submitters
information
and
to
weed
out
what
belongs
to
whom
and
what
has
simply
been
added
to
the
persons
information
in
order
for
the
search
engine
to
bring
it
to
your
attention.
Did
that
confuse
you?
Well,
One
World
Tree
confuses
the
heck
out
of
me
so
you
get
the
picture!

Even
more
frustrating
is
that
there
is
no
visible
method
of
updating
or
correcting
the
databases
found
on
One
World
Tree
and
lots
and
lots
of
OLD
information
is
on
there
that
has
now
been
disproven
by
myself
or
by
others
who
help
me
to
research.
This
makes
me
look
like
a
fool
as
my
name
is
there
for
all
to
see
AND
it
leads
others
to
include
incorrect
information
in
their
own
files
that
they
can
credit
me
as
the
source
of
that
faulty
information
-
thank
you
One
World
Tree!
(You
CAN
add
a
comment
to
a
Tree
but
not
to
the
One
World
Tree
as
it
pertains
to
the
search
engines
at
Ancestry.com)

I
can't
control
what
One
World
Tree
has
of
my
"old"
work
at
this
time,
but
I
can
control
what
does
happen
with
my
gedcom
from
this
point
on
....it
has
been
removed
to
protect
it
under
the
copyright
of
intellectual
property
and
to
prevent
its
being
added
to
some
other
uneditable
database
in
the
future.

I
recently
learned
that
a
free
genealogy
database
has
contacted/hired
an
attorney
to
discuss
the
alleged
"lifting"
of
some
of
their
pages
into
a
subscription
only
world
of
genealogy
-
so
this
problem
may
allegedly
be
greater
than
just
the
inclusion
of
old
user
donated
files
from
worldconnect
and
the
old
free
family
tree
website
(also
for
user
donated
gedcoms)
on
the
now
subscription
only
database.

Stay
tuned
to
find
out
how
all
this
ends
-
genealogy
is
becoming
big
business
for
some
of
the
previously
free
websites
and
the
boundary
lines
of
the
heretofore
unclear
copyright
and
intellectual
property
"rules"
as
they
pertain
to
the
internet
are
being
slowly
clarified.